Leaders will gather in Finland to mark 50 years since the Helsinki Final Act, which paved the way for the OSCE. But as Russia ...

As the OSCE marks the 50th anniversary of the Helsinki Final Act, questions abound over whether the organization can remain ...

Cheney ticket; Helsinki Accords signed by US, USSR; Belgian general strike ousts Leopold III; British government avoids ...

In 1975, a meet-up between American and Soviet spacefarers in orbit showed that the superpowers could work together. Its ...

In The World of the Cold War, Vladislav Zubok, professor of international history at the London School of Economics, recounts ...

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Pope Leo XIV has called for a renewed commitment to diplomacy to resolve conflicts. He made the appeal Wednesday as he marked ...

In the autumn of 1938, within nine weeks of each other, two boys arrived in New York, fleeing the gathering storm: a 15-year-old Jewish German and a ten-year-old Catholic from Poland.

The summit of the“Big Four” in Switzerland addressed the toughest questions of the Cold War. While the tone was cordial, ...

Switzerland played an important role in the adoption of this pan-European set of rules in the 1970s. How did the landmark agreement come to life and ...

Sometimes, when the electricity goes out in a city, everyone works together to maintain order, help the most vulnerable residents, and find ways of coping with the temporary disruption. Every so often ...

Historic joint space flight between American astronauts and Russian cosmonauts symbolizes hope for future cooperation in space exploration.